Shahinaz Khouf is a mother of six and has been suffering from renal failure for nearly 2 years. Her illness requires her to visit Al Shifa hospital three times a week to undergo hemodialysis treatments. However, Shahinaz has not been receiving the required three dialysis sessions every week, as a result...
Muhammed Salman Abu Rashad, 45, Amna Abu Rashad, 31, and their nine children live in the Jabalia refugee camp, one of the most densely populated areas on earth. The family represent just 11 of the 1.1 million refugees who make up the vast majority of Gaza’s population of approximately...
Ref: 138/2011 The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns, in the strongest terms, the ongoing policies adopted by Israeli occupation authorities aimed at creating a Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem, the latest of which has been closing the wooden bridge of Bab al-Maghariba (Dung Gate) under the pretext...
Ref: 136/2011The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns attacks launched by groups of Israeli settlers in the early morning in two Palestinian villages to the southeast of Nablus. PCHR calls upon the Israeli Occupation Forces to open investigations into these attacks and bring perpetrators to justice. According to investigations conducted by...
Ref: 137/2011 The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns, in the strongest terms, the ongoing policies adopted by Israeli occupation authorities aimed at creating a Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem, the latest of which has been establishing Shu’fat checkpoint as an international crossing, which was officially opened this...
Field Update On Tuesday morning, 12 December 2011, Mustafa al-Hweihy and his wife, Salima al-Hweihy, were killed by their son while they were in their home in al-Bureiij refugee camp in the central Gaza strip. This incident is part of the state of security case and violation of the rule of...
Ref: 135/2011 At dawn Sunday, 11 December 2011, two Palestinian children and their father were wounded as a result of an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, one of a series of recent Israeli attacks against densely populated civilian areas. According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Center for Human...
Ref: 134/2011 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the crime of killing a Palestinian who was peacefully demonstrating in al-Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah, by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). PCHR notes that IOF have intentionally used excessive lethal force against weekly peaceful protests organized by Palestinian civilians...
Written by OXFAMDecember 8, 2011“For the vast majority of people in Gaza, life has not become any easier, despite pledges by the Government of Israel in June and December 2010 to ease the ongoing blockade. Not only have certain commitments gone unfulfilled, but the unacceptably high levels...
Ref: 133/2011 Today, the world celebrates the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In Paris 63 years ago, Member States of the United Nations General Assembly “pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance...
